'The country – together as one!' was the motto given by the new government to this year’s celebrations of the national holiday of August 20th, when the country remembers the founder of the state, King Stephen I and traditionally, this is the time when new bread is baked from newly harvested wheat.
In the first six months of this year, real wages in Hungary were up by 3.7% year on year. Over the same period, consumer prices increased by 5.7%. According to data released by the Central Statistical Office the number of people employed in Hungary in the first half of 2010 was 2 million 671,000.
The Hungarian Disability Caucus presented the parallel report on the rights of persons with disabilities on a press conference on 10 August 2010 at the Central European University.
Although there are tensions in the Hungarian national budget this year, the undertaken target, 3.8 per cent of GDP, can still be met with strict control. That is according to the analysts of the Fiscal Council of the Republic of Hungary. Their latest report calculates with roughly HUF 70 billion overrun in the budget, but they believe this much can be controlled with consistent fiscal stringency.
Dozens of guests have accepted the invitation of Mr. Gauri Shankar Gupta, the Ambassador of India to Hungary to celebrate August 15, his country's Independence Day at the Ambassador's Residence this Monday. Independence Day is considered as a national holiday in India.
After a long struggle, India was freed from Britain's colonial rule 63 years ago and India's tricolor flag was unfolded by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the political heir to Mahatma Gandhi and the leader of the Indian National congress that spearheaded the country's fight for independence.
Dozens of guests have accepted the invitation of Mr. Gauri Shankar Gupta, the Ambassador of India to Hungary to celebrate his country's Independence Day at the Ambassador's Residence this Monday. Independence Day is considered as a national holiday in India.
Hungary won six gold, four silver and four bronze medals at the 30th European Championships in Swimming, Diving, Synchronized and Open Water Swimming in Budapest. This achievement put the host nation into sixth place on the continental medal table. In swimming, Hungary proved to be the fourth most successful country.
A proposal to be put before Hungarian Parliament this fall suggests the establishment of a ‘Hungarian Depository – Hungaricum House’. The institution would have a budget of HUF tens of billions.
German and Swiss investors are to build an 800-MW power station in the southeastern Hungarian city of Szeged. The project is to be completed in 2015.
The Grassalkovich Castle in the town of Gödöllõ, just east of Budapest will be the central venue for the Hungarian Presidency of the European Union in the first half of 2011, hosting the meetings of EU ministers. It comes as no surprise as the town and the previous Hungarian government also contemplated this idea.
The Speaker of Hungarian Parliament, Pál Schmitt, is the new President of the Republic of Hungary as he took office with the expiry of the term of his predecessor, László Sólyom
Mediha ªükriye Martinez, the wife of the previous Mexican ambassador to Hungary, José Luis Martínez Hernández, mourns the death of her father, Osman Nami Osmanoglu, the grandson of Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamit II.
The shark nose, the coupe-like roof line and the long, sensually embossed hood follow the nearly forty-year tradition of the BMW 5 series. This 6th generation builds upon the illustrious past while delivering an entirely new feeling.
No. 7 seed Ágnes Szávay of Hungary defeated Patty Schnyder of Switzerland 6-2, 6-4 to defend her 2009 title in the final of the USD 220,000 GDF Suez Grand Prix women's tennis tournament in Budapest Sunday.
To say that New Zealand is one of the most popular tourist, migration, and business destinations of the world is to say nothing new. Aotearoa, which in the Maori language means “the land of the long white cloud,” has fascinated people all over the world with her stunning beauty and endless possibilities.
